Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
EuripidesFriendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman CapoteOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusLouise this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Humphrey BogartFriendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibres, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
Sir John VanbrughThe worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis BaconSecrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Bishop Jeremy TaylorOne friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Brooks AdamsFriendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority
MenciusEvery business is built on friendship.
J C PenneyFriendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.
George EliotLove demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean NathanFriendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
Laurie ColwinI heard what Ashley Cole said about kicking me if he has to, but he will have to catch me first. When we step out on to the pitch on Sunday, all friendships will be forgotten.
Robert PiresIf we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
Robert Louis StevensonFriendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil GibranFriendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
OuidaFriendship and mutual co-operation must be the keywords for alternative ways of working once the Euro Ivory Tower has been demolished.
Steve BlakeI would like to express to all Londoners, to all of the British people, the solidarity, the compassion and the friendship of France and the French people. [on London terrorist attacks, 7th July 2005]
Jacques ChiracPerhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
George EliotA man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. [In other words learn to enjoy your own company and it's the start of a life long friendship]
Charles HughesIt may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Edgar Watson HoweTis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles LambYou don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
Barbara BushFriendship is Love without his wings!
Lord ByronI feel that I contributed well, but my strength and energy in that department is running out. I made, not friendships, never got anywhere like that, but you know I've formed slight bonds with people and they were lovely and gracious
Lesley BrainI don't know what the fuss is about. There are 7,000 girls [on her friendship with Mick Jagger]
Carla BruniI understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward GibbonLove is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce LeeLove, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton ChekhovI have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
Lord ByronBut friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas JeffersonA friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Sir Thomas MoreIf a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing behind the cat while boasting of the deep friendship they share. In this way, he creates an impression that his well being is of great concern to the tiger.
Chin-Ning ChuIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Kahlil GibranWhat I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
Anais NinFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Sir Thomas AquinasI always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine MansfieldOne measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
Clifton FadimanTrue friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George WashingtonIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonFriendship's an abstract of this noble flame,
'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross,
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same,
As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
Katherine PhilipsAnd even though we don’t have the professional relationship anymore, the love and friendship we have for each other will remain. He is like a father to me and I hope we both keep succeeding in our careers. [on coach Larri Passos]
Gustavo KuertenFew things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William HazlittMoral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Sir Thomas AquinasOne's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone De BeauvoirFriendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
Robert LyndLove will enter cloaked in friendship's name.
OvidIt is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.
Kenneth Tynan
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